Journalism and Mass Communication · Journalism skills. The idea in plain words, the rules to remember, the mistake to avoid and a worked example, written and checked by Mega Lecture.
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Reporting is the gathering of facts; writing is their clear presentation. Straight reporting gives the facts of an event. Interpretive reporting adds background, causes and likely results. Investigative reporting uncovers what someone wants hidden, through long work on documents and sources.
The interview is the reporter's main tool. It succeeds when the reporter researches the subject first, plans the questions, listens and notes the answers exactly.
A newspaper keeps fact and opinion apart. The news story reports; the feature tells a human story in depth; the editorial gives the paper's own view; the column gives the view of a named writer.
Students say the editorial gives the editor's personal opinion. It is unsigned because it speaks for the newspaper as an institution; the signed personal opinion is the column.
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